The NHS is to launch Long Covid services for children and young people. While children are less likely to suffer the severe effects of Covid-19, some have suffered long-term after
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A Moorfields Eye Hospital nurse consultant who helped train hundreds of health workers who administer sight-saving injections has been honoured with an MBE. Adam Mapani (pictured) is recognised in the
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There were concerns at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that testing asymptomatic hospital patients before discharge into care homes could provide “false reassurance” that they did not have the
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A haemophiliac and campaigner has said he feels “horror” thinking he may have passed on hepatitis unwittingly after being turned “into potentially a vehicle that could cause death to a
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The Royal College of Nursing is calling for a crackdown on the advertising of nursing jobs for people who do not have the proper qualifications to fill them. The RCN
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Free hospital parking for NHS staff remains under threat after Matt Hancock failed to guarantee it would continue in England after the Covid-19 pandemic. Labour said free parking along with
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Maternity services at a hospital in Sheffield have been downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate” after the regulator found they did not provide “the standard of care women should be able
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NHS and social care staff burnout has reached an “emergency” level and poses a risk to the future of services, MPs have warned. In a highly critical report, the Health
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Easing coronavirus restrictions too soon will be a “recipe for disaster”, a doctor has warned, amid concerns for an NHS already struggling with a backlog of non-Covid patients. Prime Minister
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A Scottish man has finally left hospital nearly 200 days after he was first admitted with coronavirus. Neil McLaughlin was taken to University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire,
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